GOING RALLY FOR LHMDOING GOOD
ABOUT DAY OF SERVICE 2015
EMPLOYEES
On Friday, April 24, an army of green volunteers from the Larry H.
Miller Group of Companies rallied to various charity, community and
neighborhood causes during the sixth annual Larry H. Miller Day of
Service. This year’s event involved more than 1,500 volunteers in seven
western states.
The annual event is held on or near the birthday of company founder
Larry H. Miller, who strongly supported giving back in the communities
where our companies conduct business, and lived by the philosophy to
“Go about doing good until there’s too much good in the world.”
Employees in Utah, Arizona, California, Idaho, Colorado, New
Mexico and Washington volunteered for several hours of service at
organizations such as Boys & Girls Clubs, food and clothing banks,
Habitat for Humanity, emergency shelters and other community
agencies. Collectively, employees donated nearly 6,300 hours of service
to more than 35 different charities, organizations and locations.
UT - Saxton Horne staffers doing some serious communicating with the
overgrowth at This is the Place Heritage Park.
In the days following the event, Jay
Francis, executive vice president
corporate affairs & Miller Family
Philanthropy, received letters and
phone calls from over a dozen agencies
and groups, thanking the Larry H. Miller
Group of employees for their time
and effort. “Each one of the agencies
that contacted me commented on the
quality of work, but what they were
most thrilled with was the quantity of
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work accomplished.” In one example,
a fencing contractor that worked
with a group replacing a neighborhood fence had planned on having
to bill extra time to finish the project, assuming the group of volunteers
simply would not be able to finish such a large project in the allotted
time. At 11:45 am, as the group was leaving with the project completed,
the contractor could only shake his head in disbelief. “This was
representative of all the hard work done in all seven states,